VMware 鈥檚 Zimbra brings innovative email and collaboration services to iiNet
business and consumer customers
SYDNEY, Aust.鈥揤 Mware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and
cloud infrastructure, today announced that iiNet, Australia 鈥檚 third largest Internet
service provider, has selected VMware 鈥檚 Zimbra Collaboration Suite to power its
new cloud-based email platform with the purchase of over a million Zimbra
mailboxes.
As part of Zimbra 鈥檚 first major service provider deal in Australia since being
acquired by VMware earlier this year, all customers with iiNet mailboxes will be
migrated to the Zimbra mail platform between October 2010 and January 2011.
According to iiNet Chief Technology Officer Greg Bader, the agreement will
consolidate the few mail platforms currently being employed across the business; a
result of the company 鈥檚 growth through acquisition.
鈥渋 iNet 鈥檚 goal has been to not only consolidate our various email systems, but
to provide our customers with a solution that 鈥檚 both user-friendly and comes with
all the extra bells and whistles,鈥?says Bader.
Zimbra 鈥 檚 Collaboration Suite provides a feature-rich next generation
collaboration system that 鈥檚 built with open source technology, enabling iiNet to
consolidate its various email platforms into a unified offering that seamlessly
integrates with iiNet 鈥檚 other systems and applications.
Bader said while the organisation had been approached by a number of other email
providers, it selected the Zimbra service because of its ease-of-use, unique features
and ability to support iiNet 鈥檚 current and upcoming product and service range.
鈥淶 imbra 鈥檚 offering is ideal because, without our customers having to lift a
finger, they 鈥檙 e about to get a simple-to-use email service that 鈥檚 really ahead of
the curve in terms of technology,鈥?adds Bader. Zimbra 鈥檚 Collaboration Suite
comes with the added support of VMware 鈥檚 web-based 鈥榲 irtualisation
鈥?platform, ensuring greater protection against data loss.
iiNet has been an avid user of VMware technology through the virtualisation of its
own infrastructure including VMware View for the virtualisation of iiNet 鈥檚
desktop within the call centre. iiNet also selected Zimbra to power its hosted Business
grade email solution which has been available to both iiNet and Westnet customers
since May this year.
鈥淲 e 鈥檙 e delighted with the performance of the Zimbra corporate solution for
our Business customers and look forward to rolling out Zimbra 鈥檚 Collaboration
Suite to our residential customers,鈥? Previous to the agreement, Zimbra was already
servicing 25 percent of iiNet 鈥檚 customers. iiNet realised that providing the
feature-rich messaging and collaboration solution that includes email, tasking,
calendaring, mobile and social media to all of its customers would help demonstrate
its commitment to delivering differentiated services.
鈥淚 ncreasingly, customers are looking to their service providers for innovative,
secure, easy-to-use email services, and the integration of technology from VMware
and Zimbra enables iiNet to provide its customers with a powerful and differentiated
collaboration experience 鈥?said Jim Morrisroe, Zimbra General Manager.
鈥 淶 imbra is providing consumer and corporate editions of its email and
collaboration service, and both will offer iiNet 鈥檚 customers a feature-rich unified
communication platform.,鈥?said Morrisroe.
鈥淚 t's always exciting for us to work with our customers and partners to support
their IT transformation, and ultimately help them realise the full benefits across the
entire range of the VMware platform. This landmark deal expands our strong
relationship with iiNet beyond the virtualization of its IT infrastructure to providing
flexible enterprise-class email and collaboration solutions that will directly impact
iiNet's customer,鈥?said Paul Harapin, Managing Director, VMware, Australia and
New Zealand
For further information, please contact:
Anthony Fisk Communications Manager, iiNet
+61 8 6252 4471 or media@staff.iinet.net.au
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